LOOKING for a holiday read that actively lowers your intelligence? Take inspiration from the shite your retired mother claims to enjoy:
The Cornish WW2 Midwife Wedding at the Primrose Cottage Bookshop
‘It’s 1941 and Grace Wood-Morris is a talented midwife delivering adorable babies and keeping spirits up through the turmoil of the Blitz. Nothing can distract her from her forceps – until she finds herself falling for a certain handsome Newquay bookshop owner, who always has a cup of tea and a Jane Austen on hand.’
My Forbidden Mob Boss Love
‘Lucy Parry is the sheltered daughter of a Mafia boss, who falls for the tattooed enforcer son of his greatest rival. But while in a secret relationship with him, she sleeps with his brother. Their clandestine encounter sees her catch the eye of a brutal but sensitive Yakuza enforcer. Does she dare follow her heart?’
Murder With Mayo in the Garden Centre Café
‘In this cosy crime caper, grouchy pensioner Margaret Gerving teams up with the spotty teen behind the exotic fish counter to solve the violent bludgeoning death of a wealthy garden gnome magnate. The debut novel by one of the Chasers off The Chase.’
The Farmer’s Plough Girl
‘Rural Ireland, 1890. Red-haired beauty Mary Fisher dreams of a life far from her spiteful stepmother and six vile stepsisters. But when she falls pregnant out of wedlock, she discovers her life has only extremely Catholic cruelties to offer, including but not limited to whip-wielding nuns making her pull a plough with her teeth.’
Second Chances at the Swordfish Taverna
‘Recently widowed Donna Sheridan goes to Greece to scatter her husband’s ashes and to gaze pensively at various sunsets. She has given up on love when she accidentally flashes a boob at sexy bar owner Yiannis, who, in broken, sexy English, teaches her how to love and laugh again.’
Full Moon Reaming, book three of the I Banged A Werewolf saga
‘When Emma met Clark, he didn’t tell her why he disappeared every full moon and explained the feathers littering his apartment as a ‘burst pillow’. But now she knows he’s a werewolf – and fighting an ancient war against vampires, fairies, gnomes, mummies and zombies. So why is she so attracted to the new pixie in her life?’
The Dead Don’t Leave Answerphone Messages
‘Ex-copper Carolyn Ryan thinks her dark past hunting Manchester-based serial killers is behind her. But when she picks up the phone and hears the voice of her long-dead commanding officer on the end of the line, she knows she must once again face the terror she thought she had banished in that rain-slick alley in Crumpsall.’
